Re: A dumb *S36 question - printer problem

ken shields wrote:
>
> Had a similar problem on a 170, several moons ago.
> Problem was the rpg LR logic would not clos the mapped outq file.
> There was a special patch supplied by IBM, to fix the problem.
> The office is in Montreal, so I don't have the patch reference.
> Will try to get it for you.
> Ken
>

This is interesting.  I have a different problem but one related to
mapped outqs. There are some jobs created in sbs QSYSWRK that service
the mapped output queues. When the M36 machine is brought down
properly, these jobs sometimes never end.  A WRKACTJOB SBS(QSYSWRK)
shows them in the 'end' status but they never go away.  You can wait
'til hell freezes over and they won't go.  Should you get impatient
and issue a PWRDWNSYS *IMMED RESTART(*YES) you'll have the pleasure of
dealing with an OS/400 ABEND, which will cause the System Attention
light to come on.  The subsequent IPL needs to be done manually and
takes a painfully long time.  My solution so far has been to wait 10
minutes, then issue a ENDJOBABN command against each of the offending
jobs before proceeding with system backup, etc.

Has anyone in this thread heard of this before.  Ken, is this problem
affected by the PTF you mentioned?

Barry